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Days 65-68 Heroku - Sendgrid changes
Hello!
I had two errors when trying to send email with sendgrid.
The first seemed to relate to the order of the variables in which I had to change from:
mail = Mail(from_email, subject, to_email, content)
to:
mail = Mail(from_email, to_email, subject, content)
And then the second referred to the response which I had to change from:
response = sg.client.mail.send.post(request_body=mail.get())
to:
response = sg.send(mail)
I also discovered that I didn't need to import Email & Content so the following worked for me:
import sendgrid
from sendgrid.helpers.mail import Mail
sg = sendgrid.SendGridAPIClient(api_key="MY_API_KEY")
from_email = "[email protected]"
subject = "Winter is coming"
to_email = "[email protected]"
content = "Hey Iain, This works much better"
mail = Mail(from_email, to_email, subject, content)
response = sg.send(mail)
print(response.status_code)
print(response.body)
print(response.headers)
Here's the sendgrid docs that I ended up looking at: https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-python/blob/master/use_cases/send_a_single_email_to_a_single_recipient.md
Ah seems @hobojoe1848's lesson actually. I see he pinned it to sendgrid==5.6.0, are you using that version or 6.x?
We upgraded back in December on the platform and struggled with some breaking changes in 6.1.0.
Looking at our changes then:
-sendgrid==5.6.0
+sendgrid==6.1.0
...
-sg = sendgrid.SendGridAPIClient(apikey=config('SENDGRID_API_KEY'))
+sg = sendgrid.SendGridAPIClient(api_key=config('SENDGRID_API_KEY'))
...
- mail = Mail(from_email, subject, to_email, content)
+ mail = Mail(from_email, to_email, subject, content)
...
+ message = Mail(
+ from_email=from_email,
+ to_emails=to_email,
+ subject=subject,
+ plain_text_content=body if not html else None,
+ html_content=body if html else None
+ )
...
+ response = sg.send(message)
(before)
sg.client.mail.send.post(request_body=mail.get())
So yeah I think it would be useful to include a script for sendgrid 6.x as that is the default now.
@shutteritch we can include one, but as you seem to have one ready, you could also contribute by opening a PR against this repo. Thanks